The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus is still confident in Silent Hills, a series reboot that would’ve given Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak) the opportunity to breathe some new life into the ailing franchise before Konami canned it in April.
After a decade’s worth of middling games that weren’t able to rejuvenate the series, Silent Hills was the last real chance for it to be relevant again. In a desperate, and necessary, attempt to revive the project, a petition was created in the hopes that it might accrue enough signatures to get Konami to reverse their decision. 190,000 signatures later and we’re still waiting.
And that’s why we have Norman Reedus.
“I’m super bummed that that happened back in Japan,” explained a sad Reedus in a recent interview with IGN. “I have faith. I have faith that we, the three of us, can do something else.”
That faith, it seems, comes from the response its cancellation received from the community. Gamers are known to be a passionate bunch, for better and for worse. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he continued. “Petitions with a hundred thousand people that signed it, petitions to please make it happen, that’s crazy. That’s a crazy fanbase for not just that video game but also those people making that video game, and for me to jump on that truck with them, I was like, ‘Holy balls. It has to happen. You need to do this.'”
Holy balls indeed.
What happened to Silent Hills left many folks — including the demigods who would’ve collaborated on it — bewildered, outraged, or both. Reedus seems more confused than upset, and then there’s Guillermo del Toro, who told us just last month that it “makes no fucking sense at all.”
I’m sure Kojima has the feels too, though I wouldn’t dare use my fragile human brain to try and comprehend them. I’d probably end up like these guys if I did. So instead, I’ll let Reedus take us out.
“Hopefully they’ll come to some sort of agreement and that happens, or we do something very similar that’s different. I don’t know. I have faith that we’re going to do something though because it just seems like it was one of those things that needs to happen. It’s like destiny, it needs to happen.”
